It was the next day, at recess. The group was sitting at their table in the cafeteria, located in the shady corner furthest away from the teachers. Ray was tenderly rubbing his butt, having not recovered from yesterdays' activities. Max, however, was fine due to the fact that he had already had his dose of sugar for the morning from his favourite supplier, Kai.
"Now Max," Kai said, while Max's eyes darted all around the room due to the sugar. "I want you to do something for me."
"Yes, mister Hiwatarisugarmandeliverer sir?" Max listened intently.
"See that girl over there?" Kai pointed to Sydney, who was just standing there smiling, looking for a place to sit.
"Which one? Which one? Which one?" Max was looking in every direction but the direction Kai was pointing.
Kai slapped his forehead with his hand, then grabbed Max's face and turned it in Sydney's direction.
"See Maxie? The one with red hair and the 'spaced out' look? Her!"
"Oh! I see! I see!" Max jumped up and down.
"Go up and introduce yourself to her. Be nice, be normal. Make friends, or no more sugar, got it?"
Max stood up and saluted:
"YES SIR! RIGHT AWAY SIR!" And marched off.
Ray watched Max march off, stunned.
"He's such an idiot, isn't he Kai." Ray sat back in his chair.
"Yup." Kai sat back and closed his eyes.
"He's soooooo easily manipulated, I mean, how thick can you-"
"Hey Ray," Kai interrupted, "Johnny called you a Jackass."
Ray fell backwards off his chair, then stood up, cracking his knuckles.
"Why that little…"
Ray stomped off in the direction of Johnny's table, knocking over some gay guy named Oliver.
Kai laughed at his brilliance. Then he turned to Kenny.
"Hey, Kenny. You still trying to access that girl's files?"
"The stupid thing won't let me through! All you can see is her name and student number! That's it! Nothing else! Nothing! Nada! Zip! Zilch! R-"
"Kenny, I get the point. Hey, it ain't that bad. All our files are blocked off too. Coz we're too bad. I mean, she can't be worse than us."
"I guess you're right… Hey Dizzi, what do you think about…" Kenny rambled on in conversation with his non-responding computer as Kai sighed and waited.
Sydney just stood in the middle of the cafeteria, tray in hand, thinking.
Where should I sit? –She thought looking around. Maybe near the nice teachers –She looked at the nearest table. The people there look… Well… Maybe not. Why are they looking at me like that? That girl just… with her finger and… was she pointing to the roof?
Sydney looked up to see what the girl was pointing at when all of a sudden, a bouncy blonde-haired boy popped out of nowhere.
"Hellothere!" He said quickly.
"H-hello," she said, startled by his sudden appearance.
"I'm Max! Nice to meet you!" Max held out his hand, which was shaking slightly.
Hmmm, he looks like a nice boy –She thought.
"I'm Syd-"
"Yay! Placetosit! Bemyfriend? YayOkay!" Max grabbed her hand and ran past all the tables to their own, before pulling her arm sharply down, causing her to sit immediately.
She looked across the table to see Ray nursing his knuckles after the fight, Kenny typing and talking to his computer at the same time, and Kai who was staring at Max.
"You idiot! What part of normal don't you understand! You are so not getting lollies when we get back to our dorms!" Kai sighed and shook his head.
Max started sniffling.
"No, it's alright, I'm glad to have somewhere to sit! Don't take it out on him! I'm Syd-"
"I know, I know, you're Sydney, right?… I'm-" Kai stared at Max.
"K fine, you introduce everybody, and I'll think about giving you candy."
Max looked up; smiling like nothing ever happened and put his fist near his mouth.
"Sydney, welcome to Hellmouth High!" He said in a gameshow voice. "And I'm your host Maxie! The blonde superboy from the U S of A! Yeah!"
"Get on with it Max…"Kai warned.
"Don't let his earring and prettyboy looks fool you! This first contestant is one tough customer! Former leader of the Russian Mafia, anyone who even touches him will feel his wrath! Protected by his SUPER RICH grandpa he has the power to crush teachers and sue the pants off anyone who opposes him. Who is he? HE IS KAI!"
"Oh, no applause, please," Kai blushed.
"Our second contestant is an expert hacker and destroyer of any program he can get his hands on! Anti-hacking and firewall breaking are his pastimes! Among the elite ranks of hackers he is known as "The Chief", but we all know him as, Kenny!"
"How" Kenny put up his right hand, then went straight back to work.
"Aaaaaand! Last but not least, known for his superior fighting skills (Kai is waaay stronger by the way) and-"
"Hey!" Ray grimaced.
"It's only the truth man, I'm sorry. Well, anyway, his opponents remember him by his tiger-tail hairdo (thus the nickname "The White Tiger") here we have, RAAAAAAY!"
Ray stands up punches his fist into the air, to an invisible audience.
"Thankyou very much!" Ray, realising the everyone is staring at him, yells:
"What're you looking at!" Then sits down and mumbles something about how he never gets to have fun.
Sydney clapped through the whole performance, then stopped when she realised that she too was being watched.
"Wow, that was great Max! I'm glad to meet you all!"
"Hey Sydney," Ray said, taking her hands.
"Would you consider joining our group? I mean, we're the nicest people here, and…"He looked over at Kai. "Kai has a crush on you."
"WHAT!" Kai yelled, standing up. "I DON'T! YOU WERE THE ONE THAT-"
"Don't worry Kai, I was just pulling your strings is all." Ray smirked.
You just wait til we get back to our dorms –Kai thought- See how YOU like it when I pull YOUR strings.
Kai's fist shook for a moment, then he thought about what he was going to do later to Ray and smiled.
"Ignore the mangy cat, but, what do you think? Will you join?"
Shocked by Kai's outburst, Sydney said umm for a while, then:
"Okay, sure! Now I have some new friends to play with!"
Sydney sat there smiling, while the rest of them thought to themselves "Okaaaaay…" and then Kenny spoke for the second time in the whole conversation. He actually looked up as well.
"The first meeting is after classes at 5pm in dorm number 51. Be there, or be square." Kenny then went back to his computer world.
They all rolled their eyes except for Sydney at Kenny's lame nerd slogan.
The bell rang and all the guys got up, except for Sydney and Max.
What could he have possibly meant by, "Be there or be square?" –Max wondered.
"Excuse me Kai," Sydney said politely as she stood up.
"Yes?" Kai turned around to face her.
"Isn't your dorm in the boys section?"
"Yeah… so?" Kai looked at her curiously.
"But girls aren't allowed on the boys' side!" Sydney had to look up to see Kai's eyes because he was a whole head taller.
"So…?" Kai was starting to get impatient.
Ray knew that Kai was getting annoyed, and if Kai got angry he would scare her off, so he decided to handle the situation himself.
"Kai, don't worry, I'll take it from here. You go off to class." Ray waved his hand in the direction of the diminishing surge of students.
"Alright." Kai went over to the table, picked up Max by the collar and dragged him along the floor to class. Max was still thinking hard so he didn't notice.
"Sydney, you're right, you're not allowed to go to the boys dorms. But, if the boys say you can then it's alright." Ray whispered.
"You mean I won't get in trouble?" Sydney said innocently.
"No. See, the teachers meant you're not allowed to go without the permission of the boys."
"Oh…"
Ray rested his arm on Sydney's shoulder, causing her to bend slightly with the weight.
"Come on Syd! We have science now, don't we? Great! I'm in your class too! Let's sit together!"
Ray grabbed her hand and ran down the hallway, dragging her with him.
Tell me what you think about this story! Read and review I beg of you! This is my first story and I'm trying to do chapters so yeah! DO NOT WORRY-THIS IS STRAIGHT OUT HIT'N'RUN FUN! Absolutely no yaoi or romance (can't stand the stuff!) and Tyson isn't here because I don't like him very much! If you wanna have him there, then give me some ideas about what you think I should do to him. Next chapter might come in a week, coz I gotta do school work, play mah flute and go to KMA (Korean Martial Arts) twice a week! If you have any ideas for me, then let me know!
See ya!